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as the calendar enters its final stage the ruling united russia party has lost its sizeable majority but still comes out well on ultimate mixed opinions among international observers over how the election process cool when i. show withdrawals this ambassador from. that times five border officials who tried to seize diplomatic mail from head. iran claims that shot down a u.s. spy drone along with east of border the use of unmanned american aircraft over the
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country's being seen as the latest evidence of washington's efforts to destabilize regimes beyond this influence. russia or expresses concerns over u.s. plans to maintain military bases in afghanistan even after the planned twenty fourteen withdrawal but this as a conference a little today where the international community is set to decide the country's future. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with me alice had that. start with a moment of truth for russia's ruling party with almost all the very now counted in
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the parliamentary election united russia is to lose the large majority it held in the previous steamer but will still stay the biggest party by follow circles live out off the sarah ferguson central midfield more analysis and over syria the official results are still do you good one of the latest standing. at the moment is the figures stand united russia is good at just under fifty percent of the votes of the communist party just under twenty percent that rush's got around thirteen percent of the liberal democratic party around eleven percent now the election commission actually come up with the early results as to how the ok out in terms of states in the duma right now united russia would hold two hundred thirty eight feet the communist party would hold ninety two seats parachute sixty four seats and the liberal democratic party fifty sixty feet can see that the united russia they it's in the lead has lost that a vote parliamentary majority that it enjoyed you compare the figures to four years
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ago that united russia had sixty four percent of the vote that gave them three hundred and fifteen seats in the state do a full hundred and fifty seats in total and this time around they did need it three hundred seats to have the majority back now of course the election process was what she extremely closely all day yesterday around the country both by observers from teaching policies and from international observers as well it's a day they've been giving that the fact that it's been mixed messages some people saying the election process certainly organized at all seems to go quite smoothly there are concerns. about violations with the faith counts a and also about impartiality and equality folder policies and some concerns about that i government involvement to stay in the election process that we could head for one of the international observers about their opinion about some. of his views have to get
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to see if any patterns are emerging that will be violated because it's a human person every election everywhere in the world that's a violation question it's all the systemic violations which affect the overall result. and so what does the new makeup. you know as his russian policy. well it means that the majority you know had the full meant that it was much easier for them to possibly the low so they wanted to that was pretty much easy to be imposed on the state and now it's going to be much more difficult because they going to need the support of those all position parties there's already been talk about coalitions being pulled the head of the communist party ruled out will be a coalition with united russia as some of the other parties to stop the forcibly but it would be that could happen but you know it's a bunch of those would have to make. concessions to those parties the president
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himself has acknowledged that. united russia has won exactly what it could count on no more and no less in that sense he was an absolutely fair and democratic election the result was more or less what the various pre-election polls had predicted therefore the allegations before unashamed to use of administrative leverage are unfounded worst that leverage the. book president but it's saying that he also said that he thinks the united russia had to lead the country provide it with economic stability we've had loads of kools to change their concerns that apology was meted out the state could lead to political and economic stagnation but what we are seeing with the basic figure is that certainly although it's no surprise that you know it's a question have come out in the lead that we are going to see some changes playing
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out in the new state david kay sara many times. there forty percent from moscow for us. well we also discussed the vote with john laughlin from the paris branch of the in steve him ocracy and cooperation he's also an international observer in russia's penza region there are a number of factors i imagine people aboard you know the same party has been in power now for a while secondly you cannot make situation is obviously not favorable to any incumbent government anywhere in the world there's a financial crisis on as everyone knows but as i say if united russia is less head to monaco in the parliaments then i suppose that will give encouragement to the other opposition parties i think it's very important to emphasize that the role of international observers is in my view greatly exaggerated in people's minds people think that international observers are somehow endowed with supernatural powers to
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know everything that happens in a country. and that they also have some kind of super objective ability to judge the outcome or at least the the organization of an election that's completely untrue international observers are present in the territory of a country for a very short time indeed and that's not long enough to assess an election properly . and they'll be more on how the political we shall fall in russia may affect the country's economy in our business. in about twenty minutes we'll take a look at what the latest election results mean for russia's economy join me that. well the news now and russia's foreign ministry have downgrade relations with
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khatam following an incident in which the russian ambassador to the cum she was assaulted by border security offices the envoy to the country see. us have all the latest details for us that's closer to him now us is sure what will he tell us about this incident. very interesting developments out of the foreign ministry here in moscow today as they have as you mentioned down graded relations with qatar this comes after an incident in the doha airport on the twenty ninth of november when the ambassador with two of his colleagues were trying to pass through security with a parcel of diplomatic mail now that parcel is expected to go through without any problems but they tried to x. rated which is against diplomatic normalcy also they tried to x. ray despite having written permission from the qatar interior ministry saying that they could do this this is something that diplomats are able to do is pass information through the country without having it inspected in this way at this
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time the security forces tried to take this package of away from the diplomats which caused harm to the diplomats the ambassador and two of the people traveling with him at which time after this in response moscow summoned the guitar ministry to moscow or the representatives from qatar to moscow and said look we do not. condone these actions and we demand an apology and they have suspended relations with qatar until these actions are taken now the ambassador to qatar from moscow is in hospital and is expected to make it back to here and travel back to moscow as soon as he is able to travel and has recovered from the attack so it carries those that have there been any opinions voice about underlying reasons for this. well it is no secret that moscow is not happy with what they believe or actions in instigating and in antagonizing
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efforts in the arab spring in fact if you go back into libya it is a long been the position of sergey lavrov the foreign minister here in russia saying that guitar is responsible in helping to arm the rebels in libya which is antagonize that situation further along in the position of russia that if there are going to be diplomatic sanctions that they have to be across the board to both the government and the rebels you know currently in syria it is russia's belief that they are supplying qatar is supplying arms to syria as well and has demanded that these actions stop so these actions that there's been a long tension between russia and qatar this latest development is just furthering those tensions ok show many thanks. thomas. so is a calm in the program for you transatlantic tampa's
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a flair for the purpose of the take action with m.p.'s fuming aber a one sided extradition policy that means that citizens at the mercy of a politically driven and american justice system. other news now in iran says its forces have shot down an unmanned american spy drone in the face of the country has recovered all the ground damaged authorities want but operations against intruding drones will continue and may not be limited to a rainin border author and journalist asmer townsend but he said the incident is a clear breach of international. there's an r.q. one seventy advanced stealth reconnaissance drone which what i'm hearing is said they lost it over afghanistan last week others are saying must be busily looking at this drone and what a great way of. creating technology transfer this is an incredibly serious event
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and it's of course against international law the united states yet again breaking international law with these drones it's interesting that even some neo conservatives are criticizing obama saying well we're talking about nuclear facilities iran is thinking about a much bigger game and this is really about influence within the into region egypt is a big loss to the united states after the fall of the u.s. back to day to mubarak from the atlantic to the indian oceans and of course even greece backing some oil sanctions against syria against iran this is a case of the western media feeding loads of people the idea that these countries are isolated when in fact the world is now changing. now fresh updates videos and comments always just a click away on our website r.t. dot com of course let's look at it now what you can check out there right now a celebration of this goal posts torn down and trampled there's thousands of fans
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perth's on the playing field at a stadium in oklahoma turning droid pink tree into violence. and a world war two more than six decades after it ended forty five thousand residents were evacuated from a german fifty as experts work to defuse two unexploded world war two bombs a massive one point eight ton already explosive and a smaller american one. a crucial conference on the future of afghanistan taking place in germany president one hundred cars i will preside over the gathering which will be attended by representatives from all over the world you got it was going off is watching it all take shape in boston for us. eighty eight countries are taking part seventeen international organizations and nearly a thousand delegates including some of the key political figures like u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and russia's foreign minister said this is the
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second such conference being held in germany the first one happened exactly ten years ago back then the delegates were working on the rebuilding of afghanistan we storing peace in the country building democratic institutions and so on and unfortunately ten years later some of these issues still remain and probably one of the most troubling ones is still security especially in light of the alliance's plans to start pulling its forces out in twenty fourteen it's widely believed that afghanistan on its own can provide security another troubling factor for the local players in the region including russia is washington's plan to increase its military presence in afghanistan. also in twenty fourteen as the alliance pulls its forces out and it's really not clear how these two plans how these two ideas are going to work together with the street and ganesan in general is still very complicated there is the taliban threat the drug trafficking very poor living
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conditions for the locals who are also increasingly tired and often even angered by foreign military presence pakistan is a very important country in the region is the key partner of washington or at least it used to be it's also right there next to afghanistan and it's not taking part in this conference after an attack by the allied forces on its military post on the pakistani afghani border it's suspended the transit of supplies for the airlines through its territory this puts washington in a really difficult position since it will have to look for other partners in the region for more on the situation here's a report by my colleague. on the. supply. these are would keep a war running nato actions have put all operations in afghanistan in danger after last week's attack that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers islamic bought cut off one of the alliances major supply routes two of ghana's stand i would like to
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extend my most sincere condolences. to pakistan washington's condolences were not enough to repeated incursions by the u.s. military in pakistan really left no choice and also the humiliation that the pakistani military faced in front of its own soldiers and the pakistani people left no choice before the government this time but to cut off the supply line good relations between the u.s. and pakistan as unstable as ever in order to keep the war in afghanistan running nato relies more on its other major supply route coming from the north. here it is the northern distribution network you see all these blue lines and here is the route that pakistan shut down now the northern supply network was started when russia agreed to provide his territory and air space for transit of not only thought supplies to nato troops in afghanistan it proved to be a very reliable route more reliable than pakistan now it accounts for half of nato
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as non-lethal supplies on trucks railroads and by air supplies travel through russian territory from europe and from russia's far east all the way to afghanistan and the reliance on this route is set to expand in the last three years russia's cooperation on of ganesan as being key to nato operations there. i sit down with professor michael of lee haas who stressed he was speaking in a personal capacity the u.s. has a very tenuous kind of placement. afghanistan and it is highly vulnerable it's highly vulnerable. pakistanis but it's more vulnerable to russia i mean if russia were to withdraw its permission for us to use its railroads we would be the very difficult position in afghanistan the northern supply now work could now be in danger because of a failure in diplomacy moscow says because washington turned down all of its
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proposals on the missile defense issue russia might have to resort to other arguments including its cooperation with nato on afghanistan that. their processes which are critically important for russia which are about russia's national security one of them is nato expansion into russian borders and the fact that washington goes ahead with a robust missile shield program in europe without taking into consideration russia's concerns gives moscow the right to use any leverage it has to be heard by its partner but even the mere possibility that russia could cut off the northern supply route threatens the viability of all western operations in afghanistan nato risks leaving almost one hundred forty thousand of its troops in afghanistan without vital supplies if diplomacy doesn't win the day with pakistan it's about people there being fed up with russia it's about their national security if washington does not seriously address the concerns of its partners even the best
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partnerships can fade i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and in cross talk coming up in ten minutes time here peter bell and his guest discounts what ten years of foreign occupation have brought in afghanistan now that withdrawal is in sight has a pretty. good the u.s. leaves an environment that's more secure than it was say a year ago two years ago that the afghan army and the afghan central government is able to exert more control than they are now which is to say that there is not a hasty withdrawal and that the gains that we just discussed have been solidified chris want you. jump in there but on real art i don't know where you get your facts and statistics from the i r r i base my opinions on the united nations and according to the united nations afghanistan they still virtually on the bottom of the zero zero human development index on almost any. parameter you want to judge it things have got worse for the afghan people over the last ten years the
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infrastructure is on the differences and so forth are justified if you're if you're metrics have to. work including to your knowledge according to the reuters poll which shows that afghanistan is the most dangerous country in the world for women. and. now dozens of british m.p.'s across the political divide have united in love and the staging a debate today on what they see as a one sided extradition treaty with the u.s. drawn up in the chaotic aftermath of nine eleven it allows washington to demand the extradition of any you case that is there without proof of any crime and britain is obliged to comply artie's either bennett reports patience is wearing thin. all take and no give that's the growing feeling in britain's parliament against
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america's controversial extradition treaty it was signed in two thousand and three in the post nine eleven tannic and makes it far easier for the us to take people from the u.k. from the other way around now forty five m.p.'s from the three main parties have crossed the political divide and joined forces they finally forced a debate and a parliamentary vote and what they called an injustice was a mistake in the first place despite history i think it was a mistake it's not a level playing field even with a partner like america we need to make sure that we of being equal and we are being fair to our citizens and that is not the case at the moment britain must present evidence for any extradition but america doesn't need to a long awaited independent inquiry recently ruled this relationship was balanced but the numbers suggest otherwise one hundred twenty three people have been
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surrendered to america under the treaty since two thousand and four only fifty four have gone the other way america's ambassador to the u.k. has branded these figures myths and in accuracies where they were figures he's embassy refused to reveal he's even accused m.p.'s of willfully distorting the facts in the run up to this crunch vote in parliament that could shift the balance but m.p.'s aren't backing down joining a battle some have fought since the treaty was signed i think you know the scene how many injustices have been caused because of it it was meant to be for terrorists offenses it wasn't meant to be for the kenya things they're using no janice's is gary mckinnon a mainstay on america's extradition wish list he was arrested ten years ago after hacking into pentagon files he says he was merely searching for u.f.o.'s gary has asperger's syndrome and according to his. mother should be tried in the u.k.
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on medical grounds but america's not giving up on one of the most wanted is so vengeful. you think uses some of the arjun is saw over the top they left him one is interviewed three and a half years after the arrest if gandhi was the slightest threat that wouldn't have been done but it's very much i think he embarrassed them and because of that they were very angry at him there were nine cases currently fighting extradition to america richard o'dwyer is the latest he's wanted on copyright charges for creating a search engine for pirated content it's not even considered a crime in the u.k. but at the moment that doesn't matter the us can still get their man the coalition government promised to change this while in opposition there was their chance to deliver either bennett r.t. london. now natasha is here with all the latest from the world of business stay with us.
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it's twenty three minutes past the hour you're watching business on r.t. the united russia party is relatively weak showing in the election is raising concerns the government will boost spending before the march presidential vote earlier i spoke to charles roberts that rates on capital and in london i started by asking how the makeup of the new duma could change policy. when a sudden we're going to see a cut in spending before march i think the results here basically moving political power back to the presidency under the last elections the duma you know to rush out a two thirds majority that gave the prime minister a great deal of power this time it's going to be the president with the greater power so reforms and what happens next in russia is now up to what the president decides you can use. the government is likely to raise domestic borrowing next year do you think it will be spent mainly on em for such a project or all social spending. that depends on how they interpret these results
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you have the big shift coming to support around twenty. two ways to interpret that one it's a protest for votes for an opposition party that's always been against them and through the ninety's and the two thousand. if they interpret it that way then the government should continue reform should be trying to do its best to boost growth money we'd best spend then by putting it into infrastructure projects for example and reining back some of the huge increases they've already done on pensions and social spending if however they see this is a positive vote for the communist party opposed to vote for war social spending then the threat. from the markets perception the threat will be higher spending by the government. will start to raise interest rates for what the government has to say. one of the big also in china progress programs this privatization will the
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vote have changed anything in regards to that. i doubt. the opinion polls are already suggesting around fifty one to fifty three percent support for united russia this government of fourteen and a half i doubt that that's going to have a big impact what's more important now is market in general global market moves i think the markets get more positive the government's going to be happy about the i.p.o. and some of the companies into the stock market. could start even as early as general . for a brief moment possibly off to be elections off the presidential elections but here the global markets probably the most important story. and it's time now to take a look at the markets oil is trading higher and speculations that the tensions in the middle east will curb supplies iran says oil could reach two hundred fifty dollars a barrel if it sees more pressure on its nuclear program and other moves this coming from europe or the new italian prime minister mario monti plans to spend thirty billion euro on a sweeping austerity package. european markets are quite upbeat in
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the afternoon trading with banking shares in the lead of the footsies gaining more than half a percent the dax is up more than three quarters of a percent sour investors looking ahead to a meeting between french president nicolas sarkozy and german chancellor angela merkel to their european summit later in the week. the russian market supposed thing modest gains this hour both the r.t.s. and the my six are up around the quarter percent each. and now a quick look at some individual share moves on the my six most oil majors are on the rise by stronger crude oil gaining just around one percent to gazprom is also off its gaining more than a quarter percent the company has finalized this acquisition of bell russian gas pipeline operator bellbottoms gaz but the steel maker m.k. is down the company has posted fifty eight million dollars of net loss for the first five months of the year. that's all we have time for in this edition of
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business but you can always find a lot more stories there online for you at our com slash business. thanks.
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